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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370150
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370317
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415742
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - In: Economics letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 392-395
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495161
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364769
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Thankworthy parental altruism and children's habit-formation
Zhang, Lin; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2013
We propose a model of parental altruism in relation with child habit formation, where children are unaware of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201733
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755176
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Chapter 10. Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Cigno, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 609-660). 2016
The early contributions to the microeconomic literature assume that only market goods yield utility, and that the only way adults can secure the consumption of these goods in old age is by saving. The more recent contributions recognize, however, that the elderly derive utility also from goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023481
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Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
Rangel, Antonio - 2000
-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the … relationship between them. A FIG is a transfer from present to future generations, like parental investments in education and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171655
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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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